The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @ManchesterUP today!
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
Evan Smith
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Our new volume 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956', co-edited with Daniel Frost, is now available for pre-order from Manchester University Press.
Hardback is out Nov 2025, with a paperback edition to follow in 2026-27.
Happy to announce that I will be the new book reviews editor for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, starting in 2025. If you are interested in reviewing a book, or have recently published a book, on imperial/colonial history, please get in touch!
Trying to step back from academia and social media in 2024. Posting less frequently and not doing as much on the research front.
Stay in school, your pal, Evan.
In my research on this topic, I also recently came across this article in the Washington Post from 1979 by the future US ambassador to Kenya complaining of the US hostility towards Rhodesia compared with its support for Israel, when both states shared similar traits.
I research the transnational solidarity & networks of whiteness, settler colonialism & anti-communism in the Cold War. I thought it was interesting that this 1976 issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine featured an interview with a Rhodesian general and story on an American mercenary in Israel.
Full issue can be found here: https://archive.org/details/soldieroffortunemagazine
If you're interested in the history of international solidarity with Palestine, many sources can be found in my list of radical online (and open access) archives. Over 500 collections from around the world are listed.
For example, the poster below can be found in the Digital Innovation South Africa archive, which has a wealth of material related to radical movements in South Africa.
https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-online-collections-and-archives/
Seth CotlarNew Substack post from me on the memory culture into which I (and large numbers of other Americans) was socialized in the late 20th century. Why did I learn nothing about the history of American fascism and the resistance to it?
https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-messed-up-memory
https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-messed-up-memory
Some thoughts on the messed up memory culture of late 20th century America into which I was socialized
Or, why did so many late 20th C. Americans feel like we had to give a pass to historical figures who committed their lives to undermining the foundational values we claimed the US stood for?
Zeb LarsonAnybody familiar with research on computers in apartheid South Africa, specifically as related to planning and surveillance? I’m familiar with this piece, but wondering if anything else is out there. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20790048